The rat people: a journey through Beijing's forbidden underground
"A shocking exploration of Beijing's notorious underground where over 1 million residents live: a sobering reminder of the human cost of capitalism. In a relatively short amount of time, China has become the second largest economy in the world and is soon poised to overtake the US. In 1978...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A shocking exploration of Beijing's notorious underground where over 1 million residents live: a sobering reminder of the human cost of capitalism. In a relatively short amount of time, China has become the second largest economy in the world and is soon poised to overtake the US. In 1978, when China introduced its economic reforms, its GDP was 214 billion USD; in 2019, it is estimated to increase to 14 trillion USD. But the country's rapid growth was achieved on the backs and shoulders of its workforce, many of whom were peasant farmers turned into the mingong, urban migrant workers, celebrated by Mao and credited with helping China achieve its economic miracle. Now, a million of them and their descendants live underground in Beijing under inhuman conditions, where there is no light or water and little sanitation. Author Patrick Saint-Paul spent two years living among the "rat people" (shuzu) of Beijing, in a network of deep tunnels and 20,000 former bomb shelters built during the Cold War. The mingong come to Beijing from all parts of the country, in search of jobs and a better life, but they are unable to afford their own homes on their meager salaries. For them, China's dream of prosperity for all is a bitter fallacy. In The Rat People, Saint-Paul brings the individual stories of the shizu to life, creating a shocking cautionary tale about the lengths to which people will go in search of a better life, and the human cost paid in service to the modern economy."-- |
| Beschreibung: | Translation of: Le peuple des rats : dans les sous-sols interdits de la Chine |
| Beschreibung: | 193 pages 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781551528038 1551528037 |
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| contents | Introduction -- Wandering rats in the Kingdom of Consumer Decadence -- Obstacle course -- A sewer rat in the human world -- Retirement in Jutong Garden -- Chinese women on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- Abandoned children -- Youth denied -- The Mingong: empire builders -- A night with the rats -- Kings and kinglets among the rats -- Artists emerging from their holes -- The billionaires and the rats -- The all-powerful party: god of the rats -- Epilogue |
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| spelling | Saint-Paul, Patrick Verfasser (DE-588)1111123063 aut Le peuple des rats The rat people a journey through Beijing's forbidden underground Patrick Saint-Paul ; translated by David Homel Vancouver Arsenal Pulp Press [2020] © 2020 193 pages 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Translation of: Le peuple des rats : dans les sous-sols interdits de la Chine Introduction -- Wandering rats in the Kingdom of Consumer Decadence -- Obstacle course -- A sewer rat in the human world -- Retirement in Jutong Garden -- Chinese women on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- Abandoned children -- Youth denied -- The Mingong: empire builders -- A night with the rats -- Kings and kinglets among the rats -- Artists emerging from their holes -- The billionaires and the rats -- The all-powerful party: god of the rats -- Epilogue "A shocking exploration of Beijing's notorious underground where over 1 million residents live: a sobering reminder of the human cost of capitalism. In a relatively short amount of time, China has become the second largest economy in the world and is soon poised to overtake the US. In 1978, when China introduced its economic reforms, its GDP was 214 billion USD; in 2019, it is estimated to increase to 14 trillion USD. But the country's rapid growth was achieved on the backs and shoulders of its workforce, many of whom were peasant farmers turned into the mingong, urban migrant workers, celebrated by Mao and credited with helping China achieve its economic miracle. Now, a million of them and their descendants live underground in Beijing under inhuman conditions, where there is no light or water and little sanitation. Author Patrick Saint-Paul spent two years living among the "rat people" (shuzu) of Beijing, in a network of deep tunnels and 20,000 former bomb shelters built during the Cold War. The mingong come to Beijing from all parts of the country, in search of jobs and a better life, but they are unable to afford their own homes on their meager salaries. For them, China's dream of prosperity for all is a bitter fallacy. In The Rat People, Saint-Paul brings the individual stories of the shizu to life, creating a shocking cautionary tale about the lengths to which people will go in search of a better life, and the human cost paid in service to the modern economy."-- Working poor / China / Beijing / Biography Working class / China / Beijing / Social conditions Working class / Housing / China / Beijing Underground areas / China / Beijing Rural-urban migration / China / Beijing Migrant labor / China / Beijing / Biography Travailleurs pauvres / Chine / Pékin / Biographies Travailleurs / Chine / Pékin / Conditions sociales Travailleurs / Logement / Chine / Pékin Zones souterraines / Chine / Pékin Exode rural / Chine / Pékin Travailleurs migrants / Chine / Pékin / Biographies Migrant labor fast Rural-urban migration fast Underground areas fast Working class / Housing fast Working class / Social conditions fast Working poor fast China / Beijing fast Homel, David 1952- Sonstige (DE-588)1021248002 oth Online version Saint-Paul, Patrick Rat people Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020 978-1-55152-804-5 |
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